From the Blog

• Feb 01 AFSCME Under 35 Members United in Demanding Jobs, Not Cuts Join a National Day of Action event to help end the budget showdown in Capitol Hill.
• Jan 25 Millennials Want to Protect Social Security and Medicare Tele-town hall will help young AFSCME members in the fight to protect vital programs.
• Jan 22 Who Are the “Working Poor”? New study is sobering reminder of why we must protect the nation’s economic safety net.
• Jan 15 Register Now for Dynamic Legislative Conference Want to raise your voice for workers? Come to Washington, DC, and do just that.
• Jan 03 Congress Passes Tax Cuts for Middle Class AFSCME will be vigilant about proposed slashing of Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid.
• Dec 21 Wall Street Journal Duo: You’re Not Working Hard Enough Right-wing bloggers Biggs and Richwine ignore data that show lay-offs cut public services.
• Dec 19 Protect Medicare, Protect Nurses Cuts to Medicare would mean job losses for nurses. AFSCME is working to stop them.
• Dec 12 Call Congress to Protect the Middle Class – I Did Working men and women pay the bills of this country. We deserve a fair shake.
• Dec 05 White House Official Thanks AFSCME Members for Work Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett spoke with members of the union’s International Executive Board.
• Nov 29 Saunders on Fiscal Showdown: ‘Our Message Is Very Clear’ AFSCME Pres. Lee Saunders discussed the grassroots push for legislation that puts working families first.
• Nov 20 Union Ads Echo Voters’ Voices from Across the Country TV and radio ads by AFSCME, SEIU and NEA are airing in select states.
• Nov 14 In Meeting with Labor Leaders, Obama Vows to Stand behind Middle Class Pres. Lee Saunders says AFSCME is ready to “keep the pressure on” during budget negotiations.
• Oct 24 America’s Workers Fed Up With Romney’s Say Anything Strategy You can fool some of the people some of the time, but you can’t fool AFSCME members any time.
• Oct 15 Romney-Ryan Medicare Plan Picks Seniors’ Pockets Changing Medicare to a “voucher” system means higher premiums for 6 out of 10 seniors.
• Oct 15 Vice Presidential Debate Highlights Fight for Fairness On MSNBC, Pres. Lee Saunders says Joe Biden made the case for the middle class.
• Oct 12 This Campaign Hits Home for Workers AFSCME members, president tackle 1% Mitt Romney’s attack on the 47%
• Oct 05 Romney Shakes the Etch-A-Sketch Again The candidate who doesn’t care about the poor or the 47% also disregards the truth.
• Oct 01 Meet Richard Hayes: He Collects Mitt Romney’s Trash Videos spotlight public service workers, underscore Romney’s arrogant dismissal of nearly half of all Americans.
• Sep 18 Romney Uninterested in Half of Country He Wants to Lead Candidate calls 47 percent of the country freeloaders because they voted for President Obama.
• Sep 07 Obama: The Choice for a Stronger America Is Now Ours A vow to strengthen Medicare, Social Security, Medicaid.
• Sep 06 DNC Speakers Emphasize Message of Inclusion Bill Clinton, Richard Trumka and Benita Veliz among those who addressed the convention’s second night.
• Aug 30 Paul Ryan Acceptance Speech Light on Reality Wisconsin retirees: Paul Ryan would “tear seniors’ safety net to shreds.”
• Aug 29 They Said What?! Remarks from anti-worker governors at the Republican National Convention had us scratching our heads.
• Aug 20 On Social Security’s Birthday: Strengthen and Preserve It (Medicare, Too!) Celebrating our country’s most successful insurance program for individuals, retirees, the disabled and family survivors.
• Aug 11 Romney Taps Medicare-Slashing Paul Ryan as VP Pick Congressman designed a budget that hurts seniors, working families.
• Aug 03 Happy Birthday Medicare. Here’s to Many More, Free of Right-Wing Attack Celebrating 47 years of Medicare and Medicaid, pillars of our nation’s health and economic security.
• Jul 18 AFSCME Member Discusses Retirement Security at White House New York retiree Stuart Leibowitz spoke of the need to preserve Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.
• Jun 28 U.S. Supreme Court: Obamacare is Constitutional High court upholds President Obama’s health care reform law, which AFSCME helped champion.
• May 31 Alan Simpson Slams Seniors Group for Disagreeing With Him on Social Security Former Sen. Alan Simpson targets seniors for standing up for retirement security.
• Apr 13 Romney’s Clearer Path Thrusts Ryan Budget in the Spotlight Republican budget plan attacks working families, slashes benefits, and ends Medicaid coverage for millions.
• Mar 30 Five Myths about the Ryan Budget The top myths about Rep. Paul Ryan's budget plan in 140 characters or less.
• Mar 22 The Ryan Republican Budget, v2.0 GOP re-releases last year’s budget, plan decimates programs to give tax breaks to the wealthy.
• Aug 05 House GOP’s Cantor Says Medicare & Medicaid Promises May Not Be Kept As programs turn 46, Rep. Cantor threatens to hang millions of Americans out to dry.
• Jul 29 Default: It’s Not Just a Game of Politics Federally funded state programs could get hammered if Congress fails to raise the debt ceiling.
• Jul 29 Ad Campaign Launched to Pressure Lawmakers to Do the Right Thing AFSCME-sponsored TV ads target eight members of Congress on debt ceiling vote.
• Jul 28 Enough Is Enough! Hundreds rally at the U.S. Capitol to oppose deep cuts to the social safety net.
• Jul 26 Americans Reject Cuts to the Middle Class, Favor Higher Taxes on the Wealthy, Corporations New poll shows voters oppose the Republican plan to cut Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.
• Jul 22 Shared Sacrifice? Not in the ‘Gang of Six’ Plan Ad tells it straight about the shortcomings of the “Gang of Six” deficit plan.
• Jul 21 Gut & Scrap The Republican proposal to gut and scrap Medicare looks like the Ryan plan on steroids.
• Jun 14 Protesters Spread the News: Keep Hands Off Medicare Opposition to Republican budget makes headlines at a town hall meeting held at DC's Newseum.
• May 27 Rep. Ryan Wants to Push Retirees Back into the “Donut Hole” Budget proposal would repeal Affordable Care Act provisions providing relief from high prescription drug costs.
• May 25 Hands Off Medicare Senate must reject the Ryan budget plan that would eliminate Medicare as we know it.
• May 18 Newt Gingrich, Defender of Medicare? Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich criticizes House GOP proposal to cut Medicare.
• May 10 Shining a Light on House GOP Budget Cuts to Medicare and Medicaid The Republican budget plan replaces Medicare with a voucher system and slashes Medicaid spending.
• May 03 AFSCME Nurses in DC this Week to Fight for Medicaid, Medicare National Nurses Congress attendees will attend workshops, hear speakers and meet with members of Congress.
• Mar 11 Republicans Take Aim at Social Security Republican legislators in both the U.S. House and Senate have now started moving toward cutting Social Security.
• Feb 04 Maryland State Workers Score Big With New Contract
• Nov 03 Voters Want a Recovery That Works for Everyone “Angry voters sent a clear message on Tuesday: Much, much more must be done to put America back to work. But voters rejected right-wing and Tea Party candidates [...]
• Oct 06 Social Security Sense and Nonsense In a new paper and podcast I’ve tried to correct some of the misinformation that critics of Social Security have been spreading about the program. Here are the facts. Social Security is a well-run, fiscally responsible program.
• Sep 29 Wake Up, Washington! Securing Retirement Americans should be able to enjoy a secure retirement after a lifetime of work. AFSCME is participating in “Wake Up, Washington!” Month to encourage Americans across the country to tell lawmakers to keep their hands off Social Security [...]
• Sep 28 America's Failed 401(k) Experiment While the unfunded pension liabilities in many public retirement funds have received an inordinate amount of attention, the larger retirement deficit of most Americans is not generating the level of concern that it deserves.
• Aug 13 Celebrate 75 Years of Social Security This year, over 53 million Americans will receive a benefit they earned and count on from Social Security. For an economy that has failed many, Social Security provides certainty in an uncertain time.
• Aug 02 Call Your Senators Today to Protect a Million Jobs Earlier this year, Democrats in the Senate tried three times to pass legislation that would help states deal with growing Medicaid rolls, the joint federal-state health care program for the poor.
• Jul 29 Keep Your Hands Off Social Security! Years after George W. Bush’s failed attempts to privatize Social Security, his cohorts are renewing calls for privatization. This time they’re using deficit reduction as an excuse.
• Sep 26 A Quick Take on CEO Pay
• Apr 03 Social Security, Still Healthy After All These Years